Horizontal piano.



W. SIBGEL. HORIZONTAL PIANO.

APPLICATION FILED JULY 12, 19] .1.'

1,049,278, Patented Dec. 31,1912.

COLUMBIA PLANOGIAPH co.,wAsmNG10N. n, C.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

WILLIAM SIEGEL, 0F STADE, NEAR HAMBURG, GERMANY.

HORIZONTAL PIANO.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, WVILLIAM SIEGEL, manufacturer, a subject of theGerman Emperor, and residing in Stade, near Hamburg, in Germany, haveinvented new and useful Improvements in Horizontal Pianos, of which thefollowing is a specification.

This invention relates to horizontal pianos and has for its object a newarrangement of the sounding board and the set of strings. In contrastwith the pianos of the said kind in use, the frame with the soundingboard and the set of strings are inverted, and the hammers strike thestrings from below. By this arrangement the sounding-board can bedirectly glued upon the frame, whereby that part of the sounding boardwhich is lying before the bridges is gained for the sounding effect.Furthermore, the length of the horizontal piano can be shortened.

For carrying out my invention, I have illustrated an example of the newarrangement in the accompanying drawing which. shows the forepart of ahorizontal piano, according to the invention, partly in section.

The wrest-plank at is fixed rectangular to Specification of LettersPatent.

Application filed July 12, 1911.

Patented Dec. 31, 1912.

Serial No. 638,105.

the string plate I) and the sounding-board c is situated below the framed. For allowing the heads of the hammers c of the action to strike theset of strings f, the latter is established on the lower side of thesounding-board c. The sounding-board is fixed by gluing it to the part 9of the wrestplank.

The action k may be of any well known kind. In the drawing, character 2'designates a key and 7c the balance rail.

Having now fully described my invention and in what manner it isperformed, what I claim as new and desire to secure by LettersPatent, is

A horizontal piano having the soundingboard fixed directly to thewrest-plank, the sounding-board below the frame and the set of stringson the lower side of the sounding-board, the hammers of the actionstriking the strings from below, substantially as and for the purposedescribed.

In testimony whereof I aifix my signat-ure in presence of two witnesses.

WILLIAM SIEGEL.

Witnesses:

GUsrAvE L. GENTZ, FREDERICK SIEGEL.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressingthe Commissioner of Patents, Washington, D. 0.

